According to a recent pest report from the North America Plant Protection Organization’s Phytosanitary Alert System, APHIS is adding portions of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties in California; all of Kleberg, Kenedy, and Webb counties in Texas; and all of Plaquemines and Saint Bernard Parishes in Louisiana to the quarantined area due to detections in plant tissue samples collected in multiple locations in these states.

APHIS is working in cooperation with the respective Departments of Agriculture as well as stakeholders from each state’s citrus industry in this effort.